The system was visited by the USS Darfur on a charting mission in 2347, which located two more planets that the UNC-CH astronomers had missed. Gamma Rolor 324 VII was noted to be Class M and marked as a possibility for a Federation colony, but rising hostilities with the nearby Cardassian Union forced all plans to be put on hold indefinitely.

Gamma Rolor 324 was renamed "Dreon" after a Bajoran word meaning "rebirth", and the USS Shanghai and USS Phlox delivered the first load of 2,000 Bajoran settlers in September.

Over the next several years the colony would establish itself and begin funneling resources including metal ores back to Bajor. Among the captains making the run was Kasidy Yates, skipper of the SS Xhosa. (DS9: "For the Cause")